Group Members:

Cabatino, Lalaine
Lerion, Carla
Ramos, Justin Lei
Rosos, Joseph Ignatius

JEAN GOTTMAN
Megalopolis

Jean Gottman
was a French geographer who was best known for his

seminal study on the urban region of the Northeast

Megalopolis.
His main contributions to human geography were in the
sub-fields of urban, political, economic, historical and
regional geography.
His regional specializations ranged from France and
the Mediterranean to the United States, Israel, and Japan
Dr. Jean Gottmann, is also the one who scrutinized the Northeastern Corridor

of the United States and defined it as a new social, economic and political
entity he called Megalopolis.

Megalopolis
Prefix:

Megalo = Very Large

1. a very large city
2. an urban region, esp. of large adjoining cities and suburbs.
typically defined as a chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan
areas.
A megalopolis, also known as a megaregion, is a clustered network of cities.

Gottmann defined its population as 25 million

Modern interlinked ground transportation corridors, such as rail and highway,
often aid in the development of megalopolis.

Historical Background
MEGALOPOLIS
A term initially coined by French Geographer, Jean

Gottmann in 1961
The large population agglomeration which extended from
Boston to Washington
Now, any agglomeration of large coalescing super cities

MEGALOPOLIS
This is an example of

megalopolis which was

described by Jean Gottman as
a chain of metropolitan areas
along the northeastern
seaboard of the U.S. extending
from Boston, Massachusetts thr
ough New York
City, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
and ending in Washington,
D.C.and Northern Virginia. The
latter is sometimes called the
Boswash megalopolis".